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Apparently Photobucket has recently woke up to the fact that their users have been linking to their uploaded Photobucket photos from other web sites. (That's Smokstak for one.)

We are then left to look at a Photobucket logo including their pop-up advertising. Please update your Photobucket account or better yet, DO NOT USE OFF SITE PHOTO HOSTS! They have a bad habit of getting hungry or simply going away!

The rest of us get to see these in your posts and this leaves us no choice but to DELETE your posts!

Photobucket was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures.[7][8] It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.
In December 2009, Fox's parent company, News Corp, sold Photobucket to Seattle mobile imaging startup Ontela. Ontela then renamed itself Photobucket Inc. and continues to operate as Photobucket.[9]
In June 2010, Photobucket was named in the Lead411's Hottest Seattle Companies list.[10]
On June 28, 2017, Photobucket changed its Terms of Use regarding free accounts and third party hosting (hosting on forums, eBay, etc). Only the most expensive plan, at $399.99 per year, now permits third party hosting and linking to forums.[11] Photobucket made this change with no input or consultation with their current users, or the public. Adding this to photobuckets use of excessive pop-up ads, scams, clickbait advertisements, and in some cases viruses embedded in ads, the number of active accounts quickly decreased.[citation needed]
This new business model has caused thousands of forum DIY's and write-ups with explanatory pictures to be rendered useless. About 500 words into the linked document was a declaration that free accounts would no longer permit image-linking to third-party sites. eBay and Etsy have also been affected, in addition to many forums and blogs.[12] Thousands of images promoting goods sold on Amazon and other shopping sites have been removed after the photo-sharing service changed its terms, causing a great deal of controversy. One user was quoted as saying: "The CEO of Photobucket will have trouble getting a job digging a garden after this."

I've had a Photobucket Pro account since 2008. I was paying around $80 a year for the Pro account.

Those "fine folks" at PB have allowed my account to continue the third party hosting until my renewal date in spring next year.

After a very short thought process, I have decided to get my own domain ( from HostMonster ) and will be hosting my own pictures from there. The $400 extortion payment that PB wants for one year will pay for over three years of my own domain.

For all I care, PhotoBucket can go down the tubes. I've put various pictures on different forums showing how to do different things. Thanks to PB greed, all you get is their extortion label instead of the pictures.

This Photo Bucket fiasco has me hotter than hell. I have been a paying subscriber from their service for years using their 100 gig plan. Now as of this past week they have turned off linking photos. My sincere apologies to the Smokstak readers who cannot view the photos in the detailed threads I have posted . I am half tempted to wait and see if they realize they made a mistake and turn back on this feature for paying customers of lesser plans other than their $400/year. If not, I will unfortunately tell PhotoBucket - sayonara, which means all of this documentation will be lost for good. Again, so sorry...

Elden, Moving forward your suggestion probably makes the most sense, however all the images on untold number of threads on Smokdtak by members with photobucket hosted images are now sadly gone. Speaking for myself I have untold hours documenting reproduction and restoration activity for the past 10 years or so that is lost unless I fork out $400 a year which is unlikely to happen. Had I only known.....

I would gladly pay photo bucket $10 a year to view photos hosted there. To me it makes more sense then hitting the photo owners with $400. There is no reason why they could not offer both.

A while back my blogspot blog and youtube accounts were messed. I was forced to change accounts and their transfer tools failed. Luckily I have the original material but its a pain patching up the blogs. Nothing is safe unless you control the host.

if you use the firefox or chrome browsers there are plug ins you can add that will allow you to still see photobucket images in posts as long as the account owner has not deleted the account. I use it with chrome and it works good.
As long as the PB account still exists you can see the pics, if the PB account was closed you can not.